J2Ski Forum Posts and Replies by dgou

A lot also depends on the airline you are flying with, i.e. this year I booked my flight through Inghams going with Flybe to Berne, Inghams limits on baggage are different to Flybe - which is odd - but my contract is with Inghams so I have to abide by their rules! So my boots are being well packed in with my 20kg hold luggage (and on the invoice it clearly states that boots are counted in as hold luggage and you are only allowed one bag). I am having to cut down big time on what I take to wear - or wear everything on the plane and not be able to fit in my seat!!

Some airlines allow you 10kg hand luggage, which would accommodate boots, but then you have got to get them in the overhead locker, which if everyone did this, it would be impossible.

so if anyone has a Learjet handy with space to Berne, I would like to know!!

You have to weigh up taking your own boots or running the risk of the hire shops (and whoever is on duty when you come to get your boots!)

Ryan - Ellis Brigham - Tamworth Snowdome - Jobs a good 'un!!!

I am very hopeful that someone somewhere out there will be able to tell me the name of this song (and if it is on YouTube!) Years ago in the late 1970's I was on holiday in Spain and there was this song that they kept playing in the disco - being only 17 at the time I was too shy to ask the DJ what it was - and since I started skiing in the mid-80's I seem to hear it at virtually every ski resort that plays Euro pop type music. Try as I might I cannot find out. It has a conga type rhytym and goes through all different types of beat (part of it I think they are singing about Zarzuela - which is a Spanish casserole!!!!) I last heard it in Hochfilzen at the Biathlon a few years ago, and everyone of all nationalities were congaring (sic)round to it! It is a happy tune - and I would be dead happy if someone knows it! - as it has bugged me for about 30 years!!!

Have a look at Ski Angels, sold on the Ellis Brigham website - seem to be the answer to a lot of shin problems - am buying some myself for this season, but if anyone has used them, this might be useful info to share.

So it's a gluhwein to me for mentioning it and Karen72 for adding the Youtube connection! Prost! Salute! or Down Yer Gregory!! Cheers!

(or as Kevin would say 'uuuh God Almighty!!!)

I wonder where he is - and is he aware of all the laughs he has caused??

Skied S-H about 3 years ago. We were with Thomson, they use the sports shop right in the middle of Saalbach but I had a bad experience there where the guy was very impatient (and the shop was not busy) and because he had no boots to fit me (size 7 or 8)he made me take a size 10 - well you can imagine my first day skiing around in what equated to buckets on my feet, I took them back (on the ski bus) later that day and he still had none in, so I had to go back again the next day (and took the rep with me!) and somehow - he went to the back of the shop and appeared with some Dabellos - I got a reasonably comfortable pair of boots (and feet covered in compeed blister plasters from the day before). I know there is a ski hire shop between the Hotel Austria on the way to Saalbach that lots of others (and locals) use, so this may be better - can't remember its name but it is on the left hand side as you go to Saalbach - but people were pleased with the service - which is what you are paying for at the end of the day - and a comfy pair of boots!

Avoid Mr Angry at all costs!!!

Niederau is good, went twice back in the 1990's, but also look at Westendorf, for a good ski school and beginner area, to going higher up to some easy reds and cruisey blues - and it is also linked into the Ski Welt and now I believe a gondola links to Kitzbuhel. Nice traditional village - very Austrian.

I had a great teacher, with most of my class being from Ireland, so the comedy value was great (the craic!) and we yodelled our way around the slopes.

Plenty of nice places to stop for a drink/break/look at the view and the snow is usually better in Westendorf than the Ski Welt.

Worth a look! ... but so is Niederau!

See my post - ski boots for a high instep - I went to Ellis Brigham at the Snowdome, had my feet measured and the way I stand/walk looked at, and a lot of time spent looking at my feet. By far the best ski boot fitting ever - Lockwoods of Leamington have given up on me twice over the course of 18 years!

At the end of the day you work hard for your ski holiday, therefore you want comfortable boots - days spent going to and from a hire shop, cut into your skiing time and uncomfortable feet are a nightmare, whether they are cold, rubbing or numb!

Happy feet means happy skiing!